These -sysdir- commands can be put into Ulrich's profile.do
so that they are executed every time Stata starts. Once
UPDATES and BASE are redefined, Ulrich can even perform his
own ado-file updates without waiting for the network administrator.

However doing this is likely to create exactly the unworkable situation
described in other posts today--if the netadmin does not update
executable, eventually the updated Stata will break, since the ados
will assume that the executable has been kept in sync.